Members of the Prince George’s County legislative delegation are vowing to kill the controversial maglev train before the high-speed, levitating transit system can even get off the ground.
Residents of Bowie, Odenton, Linthicum and other neighborhoods, began the fight months ago after they discovered some of the potential routes would slice through neighborhoods and run near elementary schools.
In recent weeks, some of the proposed routes have been scrapped, in large part because of the growing residential opposition. But one of three routes still on the table would run through Seabrook, Glen Dale, and parts of Old Town Bowie, creating the potential for some residents to lose their homes.
“Our position is to drive a stake in the heart of this thing and leave it as a zombie,” Bowie Mayor Fred Robinson said last weekend.
Several lawmakers who gathered with him laid out their strategy for doing just that.
State Sen. Douglass “J.J.” Peters organized last weekend’s event. As a member of the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee, he vowed the multibillion dollar project won’t be getting any taxpayer dollars.
“What we’re going to do is cut the funding, plain and simple,” Peters said. “Not restrict the funding, but cut the funding.”
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